Combined name-plate and letter-chute



(No Model.)

W. C. DEDRIGK. COMBINED NAME PLATE AND LETTER CHUTE. No. 417,548.Patented Dee. 17., 1889..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM C. DEDRIOK, OF NORVIOH, NEV YORK.

COMBINED NAME-PLATE ANID LETTER-CHUTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,548, dated December17, 1889.

Application filed March Z0, 1889. Serial No. 304,013. (No model.)

My invention relates to door naine-plates having a letter-chute integralwith the doorplate extending through the door, both theV name and theplate and letter-chute being transparent or translucent.

My invention consists in the combination of a transparent or translucentname-plate, a like back plate, a like letter-chute plate or plates, andsuitable fram e-work on both sides ofthe door detachably securedthereto. Itis connected as follows:

A is a part of the door-say the middle railand B is an aperture cutthrough it.

C is the front frame screwed into the outside of the door, and D is theback frame screwed into the inside ot' the door.

In the frame O, I mount the transparent or translucent front plate l ingrooves 2 or in any ordinary manner, and this plate is lettered with the-name or any other matter desired. In the upper bar of this frame I cutthe diagonal slotway 3., which constitutes the entrance or upper end ofthe letter-chute.

In the frame D, I mount, in any usual way, the transparent ortranslucent back plate 4, which is somewhat narrower than this frame,leaving an opening 5, which opening constitutes the discharge or lowerend of the letter- To form the bottom or lower side of the l chute Imount the transparent or translucent and diagonally across the door. Itwill thus be observed that, inasmuch as all of the plates l, 4, and 6are either transparent or translucent, light will be transmitted throughthem, so as to illuminate the front plate 1 from Within the room `orbuilding and render the inscription'legible at night.

I am aware that transparent door-plates have been heretofore used, and Iam also aware that letter-chutes through doors have also been heretoforeused; but I am not aware that a transparent or translucent door-plate inconjunction with or provided with an intermediate transparent ortranslucent plate diagonally interposed between the front and rearplates of the door-plate, and connecting slotways cut in the bars of thefront and rear frames of the door-plate and creating a letterchutebetween the plates of the door-plate, the whole creating a transparentor translucent door-plate and letter-chute combined and located in oneopening in a door, has heretofore been used.

What I claim is- A transparent door-plate and letter-chute combined,consisting of a combination of a front frame carrying a transparent ortranslucent name-plate and secured to the outside of the door, a rearframe carrying a like plate narrower than the frame and secured upon theinside of the door, slotways cut longitudinally in the top bar of theouter frame and the lower bar of the inner frame, an opening through thedoor between the frames, and a transparent or translucent plateinterposed between the slotways in the frame and vertically anddiagonally through the opening of the door.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day ofFebruary, 1889.

VILLIAM C. DEDRICK.

In presence ofy I-I. P. DENIsoN, C. W. SMITH.

